3 Disciplines Triathlon Festival - Half Iron Distance - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

Overall good swim. First 100 yards, there was some bumping but not bad at all. After that it opened up and I just swam my race. never found any feet to follow so went at it alone. I did have one guy who followed my feet but when he was in front he could not keep a straight line so I went by him and he followed me. Sighting was good kept right by the buoy's at the way around.

I may be should go harder but This was one of my best overall time at a 1/2 ironman swim.

Long run up from beach. Average was over well over 3 min.

Nothing.

Good ride for me. I had a plan of taking the first 6 mile easy. It is up hill so I wanted to make sure I did not push my self to hard. Once I turned onto river road I increased the pace and was able to keep the pace high most of the rest of the ride. Up the hills I worked on my cadence to keep it above 80. I wanted to just spin up the hills and push the flats. I wanted to be about 2:45 and I hit that mark. I could have maybe went a little harder but I wanted to make sure I had alot left for the run. Started with Aero bar Warter bottle full of Ironman perform. Behine seat started with bottle of Perpetum with 3 scoops for a total of 810 cal. At the first water stop I got bottle of Heed mile 15. Second stop got bottle of heed mile 35. After cook dam road put most of 2nd bottle in AB holder and got a bottle of water for the ride home. Did not dring to much of the water but drank about 1/2 of the bottle. I also had 1 bag of the powerbar gel blasts and 2 powerbar gels.

I need to work on climbing. I just dont do it very well.

Everything went just fine. Kept it simple Race belt, Shoes, Hat. That is it.

Went well.

Great run. According to my Garim the race was 13.43 miles. This was confirmed by a few people after the race. So my average mile time was 8:07. This is the first time in a 1/2 ironman where I felt strong the whole run. Started run with gum in my mounth and it worked great to keep the dry mouth away. I started the run with the thought of keeping the pace about 7:45 to 8:00 per mile. I did slow down at rest stops to get water and heed. I did drink about 4 glasses of Coke. I also took a gel at mile 3 and 9. I also took 3 electrite pills at start of run and 2 more after 6 miles. This seemed to help. I never felt tired during the run. I did slow down on the second lap but I felt strong the whole run. I passed about 20 people on the run and no one passed me except for no guy but I ended up passing hime at mile 11. Overall a great race and course. The run course is about 1/2 shade and 1/2 sun. This was by far my best effort on the 1/2 ironman run.

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At finish Line the legs cramped up bad so I had to sit for a bit but it went away after about 5 min. Just walked around with Wife and Kids and waited for results.


This race was a PR by 30 min. so I dont think I could have done to much more.


This is a great race. 3D did a great job. The vol. were great. Thanks tawas for letting us invade your town for a day. The only problem was the run was long. I had it at 13.43 and so did a few other people. But overall I loved the new run course. The shade on the run course was great. I am doing IMOO nest year but I will be back in 2013.